Re: Overriding constructor

my $class = ref($invocant) || $invocant;
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In addition to the other comments in this thread, also see my "ref($proto) - just say no!", expanded in the last few paragraphs of my column on constructors which eventually caused the ugly parts of perltoot to be corrected in recent perl distributions.

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Re^2: Overriding constructor by xdg (Monsignor) on Aug 12, 2005 at 15:59 UTC
It's cleaned up in parts, but still scattered about in perlobj, and the way bottom part of perlmodlib, though at least those present it as an option, not as dogma. perltooc gets into it, too, but at least there's broader context about calling things as class methods versus object methods. -xdg Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.	[reply]

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Re^2: Overriding constructor
by xdg (Monsignor) on Aug 12, 2005 at 15:59 UTC

It's cleaned up in parts, but still scattered about in perlobj, and the way bottom part of perlmodlib, though at least those present it as an option, not as dogma. perltooc gets into it, too, but at least there's broader context about calling things as class methods versus object methods.

-xdg

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